If you already have the Hornady collet puller, just get the right collet. It's cheap, and will likely do less damage to the bullets.
749-001-294WB
Hornady Bullet Puller Collet/338/358 C
Mfr Part: 392162
If you already have the Hornady collet puller, just get the right collet. It's cheap, and will likely do less damage to the bullets.
749-001-294WB
Hornady Bullet Puller Collet/338/358 C
Mfr Part: 392162
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Not another dime.
I know how that goes - same deal with the Walthers I load for - just more used to seeing it be an issue with JHP/truncated cone profiles than round nose. I can load 124 gr Berry's plated round nose to 1.15", but MG JHPs have to be 1.075". Must be that the Brazos profile is stubbier than the average round nose.
The main thing with my chosen OAL is that I'm chronoing just right in the ballpark for what Hodgdon says 5 grains of CFE-P should yield with a 115 grain LRN. That tells me that the volume of bullet I'm pushing into the case is about what it should be regardless of what the outside length is.
Damn, this has me thinking about some loads I have that probably should be pulled. Lead bullets over Titegroup I loaded when you were loading the powder you could find. They are truncated cone and not sure a collet will grab them. They lead up badly but I will clean the lead before I will hammer out that many (probably still have ~1500).
Going downstairs to try that collet again...
ETA: Didn't work, just might not be enough straight part of the bullet protruding.
Last edited by mmc45414; 12-28-2019 at 08:00 AM.
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Good thing you caught it, I’m always in fear of fucking up like this with Titegroup.
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